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The Digital Marketplace blog is now closed
The Digital Marketplace blog is now closed
News and information will be published on the central GDS blog in future so we will no longer be updating this channel.
Updates to Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 draft documents
Last week we wrote that we would be opening applications for Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 a little later than expected. We needed some more time to prepare a small number of changes to the framework terms and conditions.
The difference between G-Cloud and Digital Outcomes and Specialists
Some suppliers have told us that they’re not sure whether they should be selling their services through the G-Cloud framework or the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
The Digital Marketplace vision: part 5
Cooperation and collaboration are guiding tenets for the people transforming government services and departments. In my most recent blog post about the Digital Marketplace vision, I focused on the importance of extending these principles to include the government’s digital and …
Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2: application date
The date for the Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 framework will be delayed for a short time, meaning we won’t be able to open applications on 1 November as previously communicated.
G-Cloud 9: we’re moving from discovery to alpha
We recently completed the discovery for G-Cloud 9 and have now moved to the alpha stage. We wanted to take the opportunity to think about what public sector cloud technology procurement should look like.
Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2: sharing draft legal documents
Suppliers should disregard the draft documents in this blog post, they have been updated in another blog post. In February 2017, the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will open the second iteration of Digital Outcomes and …
The Digital Marketplace vision: part 4
In my last blog post about the Digital Marketplace vision, I wrote about how we’re enabling end-to-end buying that’s as frictionless for users as possible. This time, I’m going to talk about the importance of cooperation and collaboration for the …
G-Cloud 8: proposed contract variation
We are emailing G-Cloud 8 (G8) suppliers today to let them know that the ‘contract variation’ we proposed in August is now in place. Why we did this In the answers provided to suppliers while G8 was open for applications, the …
Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2: a provisional timetable
Suppliers will be able to apply to offer their services through Digital Outcomes and Specialists 2 from 1 November 2016. We expect that services will go live on the framework in February 2017. As we wrote earlier this month, the …
The Digital Marketplace vision: part 3
At GDS, we believe that we should share as much as we can. I wrote about this in my last blog post, where I spoke about how we like to use open approaches in the Digital Marketplace.